Fred Mogul

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The city is closing four community clinics and another four school-based mental health programs, citing state budget cuts. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Heath and Hospitals Corporation President Alan Aviles says HHC needs to trim about $100 million from its budget, en route to trimming ...

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A construction worker at a luxury hotel on Park Avenue South died yesterday after stepping over a guard rail and onto a flimsy piece of plywood. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: To honor 28-year-old Anthony Paino, fellow construction workers at the future Gansevoort Park Hotel attached ...

A construction worker at a luxury hotel on Park Avenue South died yesterday after stepping over a guard rail and onto a flimsy piece of plywood.

To honor 28-year-old Anthony Paino, fellow construction workers at the future Gansevoort Park Hotel attached a bouquet of roses to the scaffolding at ...

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A Brooklyn hospital with one of the borough’s busiest emergency rooms is laying off more than 200 people. The move caught community leaders and elected officials by surprise. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Many hospitals have struggled with financial problems, especially in poverty-stricken areas like ...

WNYC reporter Fred Mogul and Troy Oechsner, deputy superintendent for health at the New York State Insurance Department, follow up on the Brian Lehrer Show open phones segment about rising health insurance premiums.

'Direct Pay' refers to the premiums paid by individual purchasers of insurance.

Premiums (average - aggregate all policies) have steadily increased.

Profits, as a ...

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Governor Paterson has decided not to raise money from 137 so-called nuisance taxes, but one of the reversals is for something Paterson said was about more than money. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: Paterson flip-flopped on soda pop. Earlier, he said his proposed 18-percent tax was ...

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A former city Health Commissioner is reported to be President Obama’s pick to lead the F.D.A. WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports.

REPORTER: Dr. Margaret Hamburg was appointed by Mayor Dinkins in 1991 and ran the Health Department during a period when public health often clashed with local ...

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Local researchers say they’re optimistic that the reversal of Bush-era restrictions will lead to more funding for embryonic stem cell studies.

NYU’s Dr. David Levy has been investigating the basic mechanisms that let stem cells divide into various kinds of cells. His federal funding hasn’t been ...

Old policy on pregnancy

Today the New York National Guard and the New York Civil Liberties Union announce an agreement to change how the Guard treats the women soldiers you see patrolling airports, train stations and other public places. Roughly since 2002, those soldiers have had to submit to pregnancy tests, and if found pregnant go on inactive duty.

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The New York State National Guard has changed how it treats some women soldiers. Under an agreement obtained by WNYC, the guard will no longer automatically de-activate those in certain roles who get pregnant. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Specialist Tammy Sullivan graduated Queens College ...

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It's a truism for most of us that if you live long enough, your mind starts to go. But only recently have neurologists begun to understand how memory loss works. Much of this knowledge has emerged while studying Alzheimer's Disease leading some researchers to wonder ...

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Prospect Park on a snowy morning can have an almost 19th Century, Washington Irving, feel. At least as you come into it. There aren’t too many sounds of the city that make it through the woods and the wind into the Long Meadow. And before you approach the people and their pooches and see all the Gore-Tex human and dog coats, you can imagine the place looked pretty similar in pre-modern times. You could probably hold onto that illusion for longer than I did, if you had better boots than I was wearing, went for a short hike on the Lullwater trail, and really let the forest surround you.

For an event about people made ill by exposure to the World Trade Center, you had to wonder if exposure to the blistering cold today, outside the World Trade Center might not be the healthiest undertaking, either.

New York Representatives Carol Maloney and Jerrold Nadler held a news conference in front of WTC-7, calling on the Obama administration to re-appoint Dr. John Howard as “9/11 Health Czar.” Howard was head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, when President Bush in 2006 asked him to coordinate 9/11 the disparate screening and treatment programs. Howard was much respected by the advocacy community for pushing to expand funding and programming, even as the Bush administration largely opposed those efforts. Last summer, when Howard’s term as NIOSH head expired, he was not reappointed. He is currently working in a different division of NIOSH’s parent agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and not taking media requests for interviews.

Paramedic Marvin Bethea, who was a first responder at Ground Zero, displays the medications he has to take following 9/11, on January 31, 2007. (Getty)

Cardinal Edward M. Egan (R) and Timothy Dolan celebrate mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral February 23, 2009. (Getty)

Timothy Dolan, the newly appointed leader ...

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Several local elected officials and advocates want President Obama to re-instate former President Bush's 9/11 health care czar. Doctor John Howard's special post was never filled, after his term expired last year as head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Congresswoman Carol ...

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Milwaukee's archbishop, Timothy Dolan, has been selected by the pope to replace the retiring Cardinal Edward Egan as leader of the 2.5 million Catholics in the New York Archdiocese. The 59-year-old Dolan celebrated Mass with Egan this morning at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and later told ...

Some thoughts on the Hardest Working Septuagenarian in Showbiz, who performed last night at the Beacon Theater.

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Schools and hospitals are eagerly waiting to see what share they’ll get of the state's share of the federal stimulus package. Governor Paterson says he is not hiding plans for the money, but is first waiting to reconcile different estimates about how bad the state’s ...

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Governor Paterson says he's considering bringing back his former chief of staff. The governor has seen his poll numbers tumble and criticisms grow about his management and leadership skills. Charles O'Byrne was his longtime aide and widely credited with bringing discipline to Paterson and his ...